The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro
A speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852
On July 5, 1852, abolitionist and self-emancipated slave Frederick Douglass delivered a critique of the Constitution of the United States to the nineteen members of Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York and their guests. In this address, Douglass argued that the values of the Constitution existed in contradiction to the condition ...
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